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Originally Posted by MoreToppsPlease
You think Topps slabbing cards at the factory a joke? It’s certainly a lot better than having a third party do it. Especially when AI is involved.
Getting truly pristine cards would be easy and less expensive when slabbed at the factory...and that’s what everyone wants, right?
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Not quite. What everyone wants is outside validation of their decisions. Much like the perpetual stream of threads here asking which is the “best” Rookie Card card to own.
That’s the value-added service that PSA sells. It’s like a co-brand now with the card manufacturers.
Purists don’t need outside validation. Not everyone in a hobby is a purist.
As for the PSA decision here, they made the right one, in my opinion. At a certain point, you have to acknowledge reality and take care of the customers, even when that means turning down business. Anyone who has ever run a business knows this. There is another big hobby presence with an alphabetic acronym, though of four letters, that is ignoring this basic reality.